Neb. murder spree figure critically hurt in Mich. crash

Published 3:05 PM EDT Aug 07, 2013

TEKONSHA TOWNSHIP, Mich. -

A woman who was one of two teenage participants in a killing spree that left 11 people dead 55 years ago and became the basis of the movie "Badlands" starring Sissy Spacek and Martin Sheen has been critically injured in a crash in Michigan.

As a 14-year-old, then-Caril Fugate and her 19-year-old boyfriend Charlie Starkweather went on a killing spree in Nebraska and Wyoming in 1957-58 that claimed the lives of Fugate's mother, stepfather, 2-year-old sister and eight others.

Starkweather was executed, while Fugate was imprisoned until 1976.

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